by Bob Wallace | Jan 5, 2015 | Web Design
We get a lot of requests for proposals (RFP) for web sites here at HB Design. This post looks at two common requirements that are often stated in web RFPs: The site should be easy to find in common search engines like Google. The site should have a non-technical...
by Bob Wallace | Dec 29, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
What is the Google Web Font Loader? To understand what the font loader is, you first need to understand using web fonts. With the @font-face CSS rule, you can specify fonts to download for your web page. This CSS rule was first part of the CSS2 recommendation but was...
by Leslie Worth | Dec 22, 2014 | Design
Design is found almost everywhere in nature and in things man-made. And when we see good design, we notice it. It speaks to us or resonates with us on some level. Good design is a wonderful thing that people respond to without quite realizing it. The color of a...
by Bob Wallace | Dec 16, 2014 | Web Design
There are two key things you need to think about when creating or redesigning a web site. Those are What are your goals? Who is your audience? Start with identifying your goal. Answer the question, “why do I want a web site?” What is it that you want the...
by Gail Snow | Dec 9, 2014 | Design, HB Design
A few months back, our creative director envisioned a unique way to transform past blog posts into visually compelling posters, or “broadsides,” as art. A broadside is a sheet of paper printed on one side. Historically, they were letterpress posters...
by Bob Wallace | Dec 2, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
As a web page developer, I rely on web browser-based development tools like Firebug. Over the years each browser as improved their built-in tools, so I thought I would write a series of posts looking at features I find useful and comparing that feature in each of the...
by Kiersten Wilbur | Nov 25, 2014 | Design
I am not any kind of designer, but my mom is a graphic designer. I have been influenced and nurtured by her from the start. I can appreciate design and I think I can also look at art and design and effectively explain to others how I feel about it. I was born and...
by Bob Wallace | Nov 18, 2014 | Technology, Web Design
In March 2014, I wrote a post describing a tool I wrote for building and editing HTML tables with an HTML table generator. Since then I have made some updates to the tool that I want to describe. For those that don’t want to read the original article, here is a...
by Leslie Worth | Nov 13, 2014 | Design
I was very excited to read that Michael Graves was scheduled to speak at the Portland Art Museum during Design Week Portland. I’ve admired Michael Graves’ work for years—he is a University of Cincinnati alumni, as I am, and he has worked in multiple design disciplines...
by Bob Wallace | Nov 4, 2014 | Technology, Usability
As I have said in other posts, I am also an instructor at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Recently I had a student who wanted to create an ordered list of items in two columns and needed to have the list item numbering continue from the first column to the...
